Try, Try Again with Katherine Velez

Do you feel like you are having the same arguments with your partner or loved one over and over without resolution? Is our country experiencing something similar?  In today's episode I hope you will find some encouragement to explore your beliefs and truths as well as diving deeper into your relationships with some assistance from a man who lived about 2500 years ago on the other side of the world. 

In this episode we briefly explore how trauma and fear effect our nervous systems. Knowing what is happening in our bodies and brains, not just our thoughts, is one of the keys to beginning to understand how we interpret and react to the outside world, including things that frighten or threaten us. This knowledge can help dispel common misconceptions and help those with trauma, and, let's face it, almost everyone has some kind of trauma, begin to understand their reaction and how to heal.  

As you sit talking to your therapist, do you sometimes wonder what is going on in their heads? What are they really thinking about? Their grocery list? Their upcoming vacation? In this episode, I address several of your questions over the last few weeks. What are therapist's really thinking? Do therapists know when you're lying? And how can a therapist work with someone they don't like?   

Are you struggling in releasing resentment, pain or anger connected with someone, maybe yourself? Do you feel you want or need to let go and just aren't sure how? Today's podcast is meant to help you explore forgiveness, why you might consider it, and the benefits it can bring. 

If you feel your self-esteem could use a boost and you want to learn ways to love yourself better, then please listen to today's podcast. So much of what we believe about ourselves comes from our attachments, our abilities, our achievements, and our relationship histories, but also, sometimes, much of what we believe is based on lies we were told or told ourselves as well as outdated information and distortions in thinking. Listen today to learn  some ways to improve how you feel about you and your relationships and how to change not only your thinking, but your physical brain. As always you can reach me at katherinekempvelez.com.  

Do you think your attachment style, first learned as an infant, is negatively impacting your relationships? If so, is there any hope of changing our attachment style or is it so ingrained and wired that we are stuck with it? In this episode we will look at ways to shift your thinking around how you attach and six steps toward beginning to move toward self examination and more loving relationships.  

How did you learn what love is and how to love? If your relationships are not fulfilling, if you feel relationship is something you've never been "good at", please listen. This podcast is devoted to attachment styles and childhood wounding, which are often at the heart of why we struggle in relationship. Why you react as you do or feel (or not feel) in relationship, is often directly connected to your past. As Carl Jung said, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." This episode is meant to help you explore how you learned about love and how to have more meaningful relationships.     

As we look at our individual and collective obstacles and challenges, read the news or even in looking outside these days, it is easy to sometimes feel trapped, stuck, and uncertain. In today's brief episode, we examine the lives of several people we might think of as having been trapped and explore how they and we can shift our thinking to truly be free, leading us to more fulfilling and satisfying relationships with ourselves and others.    

If you want to change your life or your relationships, shifting your thinking can make all the difference. Now more than ever we need the ability to look at different perspectives, which can lead us to empathy and a more fulfilling life. If you are depressed or anxious, learning the habit of shifting your thoughts and actually effecting changes in your brain, can improve your mood and your life. In this episode of Try, Try Again with Katherine Velez we start in looking at the basics of how to shift your thoughts. Let me know how you do at katherinekempvelez.com.      

Malala Yousafzai said, “Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”  And while one computer might need to be included, distance learning has not changed this profound truth. If you have felt more overwhelmed the last few weeks with the start of school and distance-learning, you might find some strategies and reassurance in this latest episode of Try, Try Again with Katherine Velez. I provide five strategies to try and help with the anxiety many parents, students, and teachers are feeling as well as interviewing two teachers, Wendy Haagenson and Suzanne Verner, who provide humor and insight in this new phase of collective distance-learning that I hope you will find authentic, helpful, and reassuring.  Please subscribe to Wendy’s resource for little ones at http://handsonprek.substack.com/